Below is the link to a new short essay written by E.K.M. for Minnesota Public Radio.Click the blue link to read the essay (a new page will open). All are available for free!Beneath it is a fiction story, Grandma and the Elusive Fifth Crucifix (scroll down to find it).

Fighting Weight: In this essay E.K.M. shares lessons he's learned through his struggles with maintaining weight. You can read the essay yourself -- or listen to the author read it to you!

There are many more short essays written by Edward Kelsey Moore, you can read them all for free!

Grandma and the Elusive Fifth Crucifix: A funny and touching short story about Grandma Goldine (a resident of fictional Plainview, Indiana) who loves attending funerals. Edward Kelsey Moore wrote it and now he reads it to you. Grandma and the Elusive Fifth Crucifix won a fiction contest hosted by Chicagoland Public Radio back in 2002. An earlier audio version of this was broadcast in 2002-03 over local and national N.P.R. radio stations. The story is not currently available in print -- it is part of an Edward Kelsey Moore short story collection which may someday be published. Meanwhile... please enjoy the streaming audio.

Click on the >arrow in the box to listen to the streaming audio file -- Free! No special app should be needed to play it.You can adjust the volume on your own listening device -- and by sliding the audio bar in the box below.

The story runs about 25 minutes,though it might take longer if you are laughing hard and need to pause it and go back a bit.

A new Edward Kelsey Moore novelis available nowin Hardcover, E-Book, and Audiobook!~~~